Lajos Kovács

Yapıtları ve yaklaşımıyla çağdaş bağımsız sinemacıları etkileyen Bela Tarr’ın on yıl aradan sonra çektiği bu ilk film, Alman düşünür Friedrich Nietzsche’nin 1889’da Torino’da kırbaçlanan bir atı boynuna sarılarak kurtarmaya çabalamasıyla başlıyor. Bu mücadelesi Nietzsche’yi öldüğü güne kadar yatağa bağlayacak, dilsiz bırakacak, çaresi bulunmayan bir akıl hastalığına götürecektir. Ancak filmin kahramanı, çiftçi sahibine ayak uydurmaya çalışan yaşlı attır...

'Gün Işığından Bir Damla" adıyla yarattığı iksir sayesinde servet sahibi olan büyükbaba Sennenschein (Sunshine) oğullarının aile işini devam ettireceğini ümit etmektedir. Ancak oğullarının ve ailenin yeni kuşağının çok farklı hayalleri ve umutları vardır. Ralph Fiennes, savaşın karışıklıklara ve yanlış umutlara Sürüklediği Yahudi bir ailenin bu destansı hikayesinde karşımıza bir değil üç aynı rolle çıkıyor. Yapımda Fiennes'e özgürlüğüne düşkün genç Valerie rolüyle Jennifer Ehle, Valerie'nin yıllar sonraki hali ile Rosemary Harris (Ehle'nin gerçek annesi) ve savaştan sağ çıkmayı başarmış, yeni komünist göreviyle geçmiş düşmanları üzerinde güç sağlamış olan bir adamı canlandıran William Hurt eşlik ediyor.

A group of angels look longingly upon the life of humans. Berlin now is a very different place: unified in name but overrun with crime, corruption, and—in what turns out to be a key theme here—Americans.

Budapeşte metrosunun karanlık dehlizlerini mekân tutan "Kontrol", bir grup bilet kontrolörünün yeraltında yaşadığı olaylara kara komedi türünde odaklanıyor. Bu genel tarife rağmen, aslında filmi bir türe sığdırmak pek olası değil. Luc Besson’un Metro’sundaki koreografiyi hatırlatan tavrıyla muhtelif insan portrelerine yer veren filmde, ortam yine alternatif bir yaşam ünitesi olarak sahneleniyor. Lakin esas mevzu, sembolize ettiği üzere, “araf” misali bir yerden bir yere geçiş hali, platformu olması. Bu ilk uzun metraj filmiyle ülkesinde gişe başarısı da yakalayan 30 yaşındaki Macar yönetmen Nimród Antal’ın derdi açık; kaos çivisi çıkmış dünyamızın, yeryüzünün sembolik bir resmini çizmek.

Tutajos is an excellent student whose parents decide to reward his academic achievements with a vacation to the countryside. Robbed of his gadgets and easy city-lifestyle, Tutajos finds himself completely out of his element – until a goodhearted ranger named Matula teaches him how to get back to nature. As Tutajos’ best friend Bütyök joins him on his vacation, the two boys learn the joys of camping, hunting, and living off of the land.

Dolf a 15 year old boy is sent back in time by a timemachine. Accidentally he is sent back to the Middle Ages. He is rescued by children who are part of a childrens' crusade, on their way to rescue Jeruzalem. During the trip Dolf finds out the danger is not coming from outside the crusade, but from within.

During the Seven Years War, Austrian Queen Maria Theresa sends her best general, András Hadik and his Hussars to raid Berlin and humiliate the Prussian King, Frederick the Great.

İki kadının arkadaşlığı nereye varabilir? Sinemasal öykülerin ustası Macar yönetmen István Szabó'nun 1960'larda geçen son filmi işte bu sınırları keşfe çıkıyor. Filmin başrollerinde bütün karizmasıyla Helen Mirren ve Başkalarının Hayatı filminden tanıdığımız Martina Gedeck var. Roman yazarı olmak isteyen Magda, günlük işlerinde yardımcı olması için yaşlı çamaşırcı Emerenc'i ikna eder. Hizmetleri kusursuz olsa da Emerenc huysuz, ters ve katıdır. Geçmişi meçhuldür; kasabada hakkında şüphe ve dedikodular yürümektedir. Zamanla, tüm tuhaflıklarına rağmen Emerenc ile Magda arasında garip olduğu kadar sağlam bir bağ kurulacaktır.

November 1664. The autumnal peace of the Kursanec forest is suddenly shattered by the noise of a hunting party. The leader of the hunters is Miklós Zrínyi, one of the most powerful men in the country. Neither he nor the members of the merry party can imagine how the day will end. The film presents a tragic event in Hungarian history, which is still not fully understood and which will later affect the fate of the whole country. Hunting accident or assassination? There are many theories and explanations, rumours and anecdotes about the events of this autumn day. Is it plausible that the life of a renowned general, an excellent hunter and a respected poet should come to such a fatal end? Who was he whose terrible fate was facilitated even by such potentates as Louis XIV, the Sun King?

The crew of Tibi Balogh sets out on a journey across Hungary to get the ancient Gold Owl statue, as well as the Milk Man. The treasure is worth millions, who gets there first?

Set in 19th century Vienna, Ignac Semmelweis, a short-tempered but passionate doctor, delivers babies and carries out autopsies on a daily basis while looking for the cause of puerperal fever, the mysterious epidemic that decimates patients in the hospital.

Felix, a high rescue specialist, brings down suiciders from bridges in a city in crisis. His son, who secretly makes videos of dangerous rescues and sells them to TV, blames his father for the loss of his mother. As Felix tries to reconnect with his son and help people at any cost, dramatic events unfold.

On a single day the fate of three couples are joined and some of them sealed.

A cardiologist is sent into retirement, but he feels at loss without his work. He returns to his home village to work as a general practitioner. This is the start of his ordeal: he's confronted with raw reality, which finally brings him to his knees. But music has the last word.

A typist girl who is under the influence of nervous breakdown walks out to the street stark naked from the office she works in. A young physician goes by accidentally and tries to help her, spreading his coat over her nude body. From this moment his life changes completely.

There is the housing estate. There's Artin, a music geek with the mentality of a teenager at twenty-three, and his brother Nate, a sex-crazed porn writer on the run from hole to hole. And then there are a few other possessions: a second-hand large apartment, an inherited small apartment, and a second-hand inherited woman. But which one goes to whom?

A man's story parallels Hitler's rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in the care of Dr. Emil Bettleheim. Bettleheim discovers that Schneider possesses powers of empathy and of clairvoyance, such that could aid suicidal patients. After the war, with one friend as his manager and another as his lover, Schneider changes his name to Eric Jan Hanussen and goes to Berlin, as a hypnotist and clairvoyant performing in halls and theaters. He always speaks the truth, which brings him to the attention of powerful Nazis. He predicts their rise (good propaganda for them) and their violence (not so good). He's in pain and at risk. What is Hanussen's future?

Hungarian erotic thriller based on the novel Erzekek Iskolaja. Lily, a young gypsy girl, falls madly in love with a dashing salesman who introduces her to life's pleasures. When Lili discovers he is engaged to another, her life begins to spiral downward.

From the fire in the school twelve years ago, Uncle Eu' rescued seven kids, among them his own daughter, Anita, who became mute. Uncle Eu' was taken by the police four years after the fire and he returned in a wheelchair. Now he is dying and according to his wish the seven youth stand guards in shifts at his bed.

Miklós Fenyö's parents returned to Communist Hungary in the mid sixties - when everyone else was fleeing to the West. Miki's old friends don't know what to make of his outrageous clothes, flawless American accent and collection of original Buddy Holly 45s. His childhood sweetheart is cold and distant while local tough guy Röné is unmoved by the challenger to his rock 'n' roll crown. But that's not all. When the authorities see the effect Miki's gyrating hips and lewd music have on teenage girls, they won't stand for it. His father's job is on the line, and, for the first time, Miki must play by the rules. He has no choice but to enter the local talent show...

Living on the farms of Homoktanya, Józsi spends his time drinking and stealing valuables from others until he finds true love in the form of a blow-up doll.

A disowned son of a Greek aristocrat arrives in Hungary in 1949 over his family’s communist beliefs and starts work in the Lágymányos tobacco factory, where he falls for Gizi Weiss and fathers their first child in 1953. Fifty years later, the now-destitute “Ratkó baby” is whisked from the Baross Square underpass to Crete by a legion of lawyers to claim his share of a legendary inheritance.